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TestYourVoIP, Roundtable Recording Posted
–by Andrew McCaskey
I found a handy site today for anyone who is considering VoIP in a business application. Companies such as Packet8 are now offering offsite PBX services to small businesses – about $40 a month per phone – with unlimited local and long distance, conference bridge, attended calls, email forwarded voice mail. Just ideal for a business presence where the four employees are in four different states – or countries, for that matter. Their particular service pointed to a site called TestYourVoIP.com .
Designate a city, and it runs forward/reverse path with various codecs and gives you some idea of the quality at that time of day you could expect from a VoIP PBX – quantitative scores and helpful labels like “tin can and string” “decent cell phone” “like next door” and “better than being there”. Obviously varies by time of day, so you can log over a few days and see how you’d fare. It sure seems to track with the quality that I see in my use of Vonage through the day.
It’s finally posted – the Tech Roundtable from April 29th is now available for download - in Windows format for the moment – at TechPodcasts.com . This was one of the the most highly anticipated Roundtables, because it was the first lengthy segment for the Mac audience- and co-incidentally the XP Audience, the NT audience, the Debian Audience, the Solaris audience.. you get the idea. The presentation from Nosilliacast’s Allison Sheridan covered all the bases with the details of the Parallels Workstation program – a $40 download that allows Intel based Macs to run any or all of those OS and applications as virtual machines under OSX.
Additional tips for mobile podcasters in the second segment of the roundtable from Mark Bradley of Antipodean podcast has me running a test copy of the Propoganda podcast production software. Mark was practicing what he preached, as he was producing his Australian based podcast from St Louis, MO.
Finally, Scott Corley from Red-Mercury software gave some in-depth details on porting applications to the U3 portable thumb drive operating environment. The TPN/U3 developer contest is still in progress, with a few units left of a sample 256MB USB drive for those who register for the contest and download the U3 Developer’s kit. Just click on the U3 contest banner above.
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